138 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”, page 1 of 7
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 29, 2007
Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (2007)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the jury's liability findings against Union Carbide and the denial of its JNOV motion, but reversed the $14.1 million future noneconomic damages award as excessive and ordered a new…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 20, 2012
Union Carbide Corporation v. Fields (2012)
The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of partial summary judgment to the Fieldses on the defendants' nonparty-fault defense and affirmed the denial of Union Carbide's summary judgment motion, so the Fieldses won…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 30, 2019
Dugger v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
John Dugger, Sr. owned and ran an auto repair shop, Personal Auto, from 1980 to 1984 and worked as a mechanic at H&S Bakery in the early 1980s. He worked with Bendix brakes, some of which contained asbestos. He later developed mesothelioma and died.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 30, 2019
Dugger v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
…John Dugger, Sr., along with his spouse and surviving children, sued Honeywell International, successor to Bendix Corporation. They alleged that Mr. Dugger developed mesothelioma from asbestos in Bendix brakes. Honeywell planned to call three experts, Dr…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · September 30, 2019
Dugger v. Union Carbide Corporation (2019)
John Dugger, Jr., for himself and as personal representative of the estate of John Dugger, Sr., sued Honeywell International, successor to Bendix, along with other family members. They claimed Mr. Dugger developed pleural mesothelioma, which caused…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · October 28, 2015
Marteney v. Union Carbide Corp. (2015)
The Court of Appeal affirmed the denial of Union Carbide's and Elementis's motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, leaving the strict-liability judgment for Marie Marteney in place. Under Rutherford, a plaintiff shows causation…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · January 17, 2024
Silviano v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2024)
The court granted the plaintiff's motion for a joint trial of the Last action with the Joyce action over the opposition of defendants Union Carbide, Mario & DiBono Plastering and Tishman Realty. Under the case management…
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Court case · Rhode Island Superior Court · March 29, 2010
Asbury v. AW Chesterton Company (2010)
The court denied Union Carbide's motion to dismiss for forum non conveniens, so the Asburys' case stays in Rhode Island. It ruled out Rhode Island law, tentatively found Iowa had the most significant relationship, and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana · February 12, 2025
Alford v. Taylor-Seidenbach, Inc. (2025)
The court granted Union Carbide's partial summary judgment motion on the failure-to-properly-package claim, denied it as moot on the conceded take-home and lost-earnings claims, and denied it on the Super…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order affirming summary judgment for Union Carbide, Certainteed and Allied Signal, disapproved Quate v. American Standard, and sent the cases back so Summers and Nybeck could proceed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida · July 11, 2016
Waite v. Aii Acquisition Corp. (2016)
…while barring untimely expert analysis), and denied Plaintiffs' motion to reconsider the dismissal of Union Carbide for lack of personal jurisdiction. Where the medical community accepts that asbestos causes mesothelioma, the court need not conduct an…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · January 19, 2017
Evans v. CBS Corp. (2017)
The district court adopted the magistrate judge's recommendation and granted the unopposed summary judgment motions of CBS, Crane, Union Carbide, Ingersoll Rand, FMC, McNally and Western Auto Supply against plaintiffs Icom and Johanna Evans. Under…
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Court case · Georgia Court of Appeals · March 30, 2015
Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Knight (2015)
Roy Knight and his wife Milva sued Scapa Dryer Fabrics and Union Carbide after Roy was diagnosed in 2009 with malignant mesothelioma. They said he was exposed to airborne asbestos while working as an independent sheet…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · August 8, 2012
Adler v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2012)
Twenty-two plaintiffs, all represented by the same lawyers, sued more than eighty defendants in New York County for asbestos-related injuries or deaths. Seven had lung cancer, fourteen had pleural mesothelioma, and Glenda Vega had peritoneal…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · June 29, 2012
Dixon v. Ford Motor Company (2012)
…cleaned up joint compound during several home construction projects. The plaintiffs settled with Georgia-Pacific, Honeywell and Union Carbide. A jury awarded $15,000,000 against Ford, which the trial court reduced to $6,065,000…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 30, 2023
Ragusa v. Louisiana Guaranty Insurance Association (2023)
Frank Ragusa, Jr. sued numerous companies in Louisiana state court in 2021 over asbestos exposure, alleging negligence and intentional torts; Avondale removed the case to federal court. Ragusa has mesothelioma. The opinion mentions his exposure to…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 28, 2017
Klock v. Albany Intl. Corp. (2017)
Two men, William McIntosh and Leonard Gaumes, both developed mesothelioma. Both had worked at the Gouverneur Talc mine in overlapping years. McIntosh died in November 2015, and his estate, represented by Christine Klock, sued. Gaumes and his wife…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota · March 28, 1990
Puppe By Puppe v. AC and S., Inc. (1990)
Vernon Puppe died of mesothelioma in 1984. His wife and two daughters sued a number of asbestos-related companies in a wrongful death action, which was removed to federal court in North Dakota. They claimed he was exposed in 1959 as an insulation…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 17, 2020
Peterson v. Vanderbilt Mineral (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2020)
Stanley Peterson, diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in 2017, and his wife Debby sued Vanderbilt Mineral, LLC and others. They alleged he was exposed to asbestos in Vanderbilt's NYTAL talc while working part-time at his wife's ceramics…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 5, 2018
Matter of Adesso v. AO Smith Water Prods. Co. (2018)
…auto repair and laundering a husband's work clothes. Defendants including Foster Wheeler, Union Carbide and Cleaver-Brooks opposed. The judge applied the standard that joint trials need a plain identity of issues, looking at worksites…